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bad service

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.12.01

I am blessed. I live in Japan, the home of the world's finest service industry. Where they take it so far that even convenience store clerks leap to attention when you stumble in at 2 AM.

But it isn't always so, especially when dealing with particularly large "services" organizations (especially those outside of Japan). When I've encountered some particularly foul service, I'm reminded of a time I encountered a very large dead animal.

rand()m quote

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Richard Feynman